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Indirect vs Direct Hospital Quality Indicators for Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants

Author(s) -

Jeannette Rogowski

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

jama

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688

H-Index - 680

eISSN - 1538-3598

pISSN - 0098-7484

DOI - 10.1001/jama.291.2.202

Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , referral , odds ratio , case mix index , low birth weight , birth weight , pediatrics , retrospective cohort study , mortality rate , intensive care , emergency medicine , odds , intensive care medicine , pregnancy , family medicine , logistic regression , nursing , biology , genetics

Evidence-based selective referral strategies are being used by an increasing number of insurers to ensure that medical care is provided by high-quality providers. In the absence of direct-quality measures based on patient outcomes, the standards currently in place for many conditions rely on indirect-quality measures such as patient volume.

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